As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and in response to COVID-19, many communities will receive significant new allocations of Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) funds that can be used to quickly rehouse individuals…
Short document offering advice on how to help client who indicate they want to move from short term rent assistance/programs to long term rent assistance/programs
Brief discussing the importance of soliciting grant proposals from a variety or organizations who are trusted by and serve BIPOC communtiies. Includes suggestions for how to expland the providers one contracts with
This training provides real world case studies showing how NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard) affects supportive housing projects and how organizations can respond to NIMBYism in their communities.
In this video, outreach workers, Michael Eckhart of Nation's Finest and Mitch Watson of Hunger & Homeless Coalition of Collier County, share their approach to engaging unsheltered individuals experiencing homelessness.
A housing-focused outreach approach requires a systemic reimagining of the street outreach model to include changes in community-level and provider-level policies and practices. This resource covers:
This study examines racial inequities and homelessness in the United States through mixed methods research in eight communities. We compare the race and ethnicity of those experiencing homelessness to the general population and to people in poverty,…
OPB article describing a new program Los Angeles is piloting to try to identify individuals who are at high risk of becoming homeless and prevent them from becoming homelessness, using machine learning and inputs from other county datasets.
Long narrative explaining how the Winnipeg site of the At Home/Chez Soi research trial was operationalized by/with/for urban Indigenous Canadians experiencing homelessness.
List of ideas from the national alliance to end homelessness on how homelessness data collection could be improved and what other information could be gained through changes to data collection.
During the summer of 2023, the Alliance surveyed the nation’s homeless services workforce. The online questions were answered by 5,044 people in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The results highlighted mission-driven workers in challenging…
The ‘Pathways to Housing’ Program (PHP) is an internationally recognized reference point for solutions to chronic homelessness espousing principles of ‘Housing First’. In Australian capital cities, the introduction of Housing First has mostly taken…
Objective: No previous experimental trials have investigated Housing First (HF) in both scattered site (SHF) and congregate (CHF) formats. We hypothesized that CHF and SHF would be associated with a greater percentage of time stably housed as well as…
The breadth and depth of this report, while necessary for a meaningful analysis of the alternatives to Oakland’s unsanctioned encampment procedure, likely poses a challenge for those who are interested in a brief overview of the issue. The report is…
While 7% of California’s population identifies as Black, Black Californians represent more than a quarter of the state’s homeless population. The overrepresentation of Black communities in the homeless population arises from centuries of anti-Black…
In 2017, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) launched the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program (YHDP) to address the troubling problem of youth homelessness. The first round of awards was made to 10 diverse Continuums of…
Although interest in addressing homelessness with tiny house villages continues to grow, they face numerous barriers, from land use laws to resident concerns about homeless populations. This research examines such barriers, in addition to strategies…
